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Maya MacGuineas: Congress, stop ignoring Social Security
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for Dallas Morning News, an...
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OBBBA Would Accelerate Social Security & Medicare Insolvency
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees estimated in their 2025 annual reports on the programs that the retirement and hospital trust funds will...
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Analysis of the 2025 Social Security Trustees' Report
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today on the financial status of the programs. The Trustees find that both...
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Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release 2025 Reports
Note: We have published our analyses of the Social Security and Medicare Trustees' Reports. The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their...
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Mike Murphy: What's your plan to save Social Security?
Mike Murphy is senior vice president and chief of staff at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for NC...
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Extending TCJA is as Big as Doubling Social Security’s Shortfall
Policymakers are considering an extension of expiring parts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) as part of a reconciliation bill, which could reduce...
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CBO's Options to Improve Social Security Solvency
Social Security is the largest federal government program and provides income to nearly 70 million retirees, dependents, survivors, and disabled...
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Lawmakers Add $380 Billion to the Debt in the Final Hours of 2024
With the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act and the American Relief Act, Congress and the President approved $1 trillion in new ten-year debt...
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Senate Will Soon Vote on Speeding Up Social Security Insolvency
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced yesterday that the Senate would vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, which passed the House...
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Typical Couple Will Lose $25,000 of Social Security from WEP/GPO Repeal
Lawmakers are considering the repeal of Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). Not only would...
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Repealing WEP/GPO Would Raise Deficits, Weaken Social Security
The House of Representatives will soon vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, legislation which would repeal Social Security’s Windfall Elimination...
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What Would the Trump Campaign Plans Mean for Social Security?
The Trump campaign plans would increase Social Security's ten-year cash shortfall by $2.3 trillion, make the program insolvent by 2031, increase...